I did a post on improving as an investor..and this is the follow up post. Read this before you go further Improving Investing skills part 1 of 2 As Mr. Buffett says ‘have an internal scorecard’ – be happy internally with what you are doing. Including investing. If your conviction is right, you can be […]
The media keeps telling you stories of how investors got rich. I have carried an article saying ‘If you had invested Rs. 10,000 in Wipro it would be worth a serious amount today’, right? So all of you investing in shares are expecting to get seriously rich, are you? Well partly yes and partly no. When […]
Actually there are many things that you need to know about the equity markets, but here is a start: a. Investors make money: Yes, it is the investors who can make money in the equity markets. Very difficult for traders to make sensible money especially over very long periods of time. However trading is a […]
Most IFAs are scared to scale down the return expectations of clients. In the Indian context it is easy to see why. If you tell a client that he will get 8% in a debt fund, MOST middle class clients are going to turn around and say “I am investing Rs. 600,000 a year in […]
The term Bear Market is not easy to define. A loose consensus is when the market falls 20%, it is officially called a bear market. Let us say the market has fallen from a high of 30000 to 24000, then it is a bear market. However, just hold on, life is not so simple! More […]
Many people ask me for a) books on investing b) degrees of investing and a few people ask me ‘will you coach/ mentor me to be a good investor? I do believe that to be a great investor you need to be an Exec Assistant to say a good businessman like Mukesh Ambani or an […]
When you have lived long enough on the planet, you have one great thing – the ability to look back. Obviously I can look back on investing and can look back about 37 years – when I started. It is also the same age as the relationship with my friend / philosopher / guide / […]